Organizing Committee Email

• ChangHoon Hahn
• Simone Ferraro
• Uros Seljak
• Martin White
• David Schlegel
• Mike Wilson

Secretary of the Conference Email

• Melissa Barclay

Sponsors

• Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP)

Overview

Upcoming and future spectroscopic surveys (e.g. DESI, PFS, Euclid, WFIRST) will expand the cosmic volumes probed with galaxy redshifts by orders of magnitude. With their unprecedented statistical precision, these surveys have the potential to precisely measure the growth of structure, constrain dark energy, measure the sum of neutrino masses, and constrain inflation.

In this workshop, we aim to bring experts together and discuss how we can best tackle the challenges that limit the scientific value of these spectroscopic surveys as well as new ideas to increase their science output. We hope to have talks, informal discussions, and lively debates on variety of topics including

• developments in perturbation theory models,
• emulator and other simulation based methods,
• BAO and reconstruction methods,
• observational systematics,
• covariance matrix estimation,
• and future spectroscopic surveys.

Please check the program for more details.

Where: UC Berkeley Campbell Hall
Dates: January 13-15, 2020

Registration

The registration is now closed due to capacity. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, please contact the organizing committee.

Also, if you require an invitation letter for visa applications, please contact the organizing committee.

Venue

The workshop will take place in Campbell Hall.

Talks will be in Room 131.

Breakfast, lunch, and poster sessions will be in Room 355 and the BCCP Common Area next to it.

The reception and dinner on Monday, January 13, will take place on the roof of Campbell Hall (6th floor), starting at 6pm.

Code of conduct

We are committed to making the meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:

Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery are not appropriate. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees. Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behavior are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.

Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to any of the meeting organizers.